Deputy Chief Paul Hammick
Chief of South Operations
Community Services Bureau

Biography

Deputy Chief Paul Hammick was appointed to the Hartford Police Department in February 1990.  He began his career in the patrol division serving as a beat officer, neighborhood patrol officer and mountain-bike patrol officer. As a patrolman, he was selected to serve in two anti-gang initiatives titled, Operations Liberty and Victory, and commended for his participation in a street-violence suppression initiative titled Operation Centurion. In 1993 he earned the Distinguished Service Award for his role in disarming a dangerous felon, and the Chief’s Medal of Valor, the highest department commendation, after confronting and arresting an armed suspect who had fired on police officers.

He was promoted to Sergeant in 1996 and supervised the patrol division within the City’s west-end neighborhood. He later served in the communications division and as Commander of the Evidentiary Services Division. In 2001 he was promoted to Lieutenant and appointed Commander of the Major Crimes Division and later as the Acting Commander of the Investigative Services bureau.  In 2005 he was selected to serve as a neighborhood commander under the department’s new Neighborhood Policing Plan. Deputy Chief Hammick directed police services in the Southwest neighborhood, and in 2006 was promoted to Captain and appointed District Commander of Southwest.

Deputy Chief Hammick is a graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, CT and Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, MA. He is a 2007 graduate of Leadership Greater Hartford’s Quest program, and in 2008 he graduated from the 232^nd session of the FBI National Academy and the 38^th session of the Senior Management Institute for Police sponsored by the Police Executive Research Forum.

Deputy Chief Hammick is a certified instructor in Hate and Bias Crimes and a former department training officer. He is a member of Leadership Greater Hartford, the FBI National Academy Associates and the Police Executive Research Forum. He also serves as Vice-Chairman of the Greater Hartford Police Federal Credit Union.